I was listing all the bad things Steam does and never mentioned Epic. That’s on you projecting so much.

You used the phrase “which one” a lot. That is incoherent nonsense unless you are talking about at least 2 entities. “Which one” was the second entity?

even if that ain’t the dictionary definition

So not what that word means.

Point to where I said that.

Right here: https://lemmy.world/comment/18163814

The same thing Steam did to secure its monopoly.

That’s not what the word monopoly means

No, you were literally saying Epic was better than Steam because Epic is doing the same scummy things but just wasn’t around when Steam started doing it.

I never made any claims as to whether I felt those practices are problematic or not, I just pointed out that they both do it so it’s irrelevant in the comparison.

Epic is worse than Steam because of its aggressively anti-consumer practices like paid exclusives.

Don’t resign, obstruct.

Piracy

If Steam goes down I have no problems torrenting games I’ve already paid for

Imagine being so full of yourself that you think saying nothing has any value.

Fun fact: the term “Stockholm syndrome” originates from a hostage situation in which the authorities did not seem to care about the safety of the hostages at all, they regularly put the hostages in danger and the hostage takers were frequently trying to protect the hostages from the actions of the authorities.
In light of that, the hostages having more empathy towards their captors makes perfect sense. However ignorant people who did not understand the details of the event coined the term “Stockholm syndrome” instead of actually listening to the hostages or trying to understand a different point of view.

Your use of the term feels very appropriate.

Dude can’t even spell “Gamers” and is complaining other people aren’t smart…

Which one killed competition with anti consumer practices in the 2000’s?

Epic has even more anti-consumer practices.

Which one popularised micro transactions?

Does Epic ban micro transactions?

Which one popularised loot boxes and gambling?

None of this available on EGS either?

Which one popularised the current “Sell now, fix later” model

“The service that was around first did these things that the service that came later is also doing, that makes the service that came later better for some reason!”

I can get the same games from the high seas for the same price and not provide Epic with an active account with which to entice investors.

if he can find someone who’s sufficiently stupid, greedy, and/or desperate to take the job (and there always is someone)

I’m not desperate, but if Musk offered me CEO money I’d do it. That amount of money to not have to do any work (just rubber stamp and tell an idiot he’s a genius)? Where do I sign up?

It’s not like people blame Yaccarino for all the stuff that’s been happening on X.

We are looking down on the mattress and it is casting a shadow on the step below it. If we were looking up at the mattress it would be casting a shadow across the stairs in front of it.

It’s not uncommon for people to record their whole trip for social media, not just take to a picture.

That’s still a distraction. Even if they don’t intend to upload the entire recording they are paying less attention to the road in order to pay attention to their “performance”.

the original discussion was about people who honk instantly.

The top of this thread is someone saying they don’t know if you’re paying attention. I was replying to your comment about “honking meaning move immediately.”

Conversations shift as people say things. If I wanted to comment on the original discussion I would have started a new thread relplying to the original discussion. I was replying to you about the thing you said.

There is a period of time in which it becomes reasonable to honk at someone who hasn’t moved. In the extreme example it is not polite to sit behind someone who misses the green light entirely because they aren’t paying attention to the road. At some point the person in front is holding up traffic for everyone behind them and they are the one being rude.

Honk means “pay attention”. If the light has been green long enough for me to honk at you you’re not paying attention to anything on the road, danger or otherwise.

We need to start recognizing corporate greed as a mental disorder. This is a company large enough that employees don’t interact with the owner directly, and all the profits from the company aren’t enough for the owner: they also want the pen the delivery guy gave you. It’s a sickness.

Explain to the client that your refusing because of the policy that all gifts must go to the owner.

Ours is the only True God Atheism!

I played on the SNES, his name was “BUTT”